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Drawing 8 (bottom right): Column base seen in a church dedicated to San Salvatore
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Reference number
SM volume 115/136h
Purpose
Drawing 8 (bottom right): Column base seen in a church dedicated to San Salvatore
Aspect
Partial section with perspectival view, and measurements
Scale
To an approximate scale of 1:4
Inscribed
.in. eclesia. S/ saluatoris. (‘In the church of San Salvatore’); [measurements]
Signed and dated
- c.1513/14
Datable to c.1513/14
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over stylus lines and compass pricks
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This base is a variant of the type used for the upper storey of the Pantheon’s interior (Desgodetz 1682, p. 52), which has two toruses and two scotias separated by a single astragal but with an additional astragal above the top torus. Like the one depicted in Drawing 5, it was seen according to the caption in a church dedicated to San Salvatore, which is most probably San Salvatore in Lauro. It, too, may have been reused as one of the spolia in the church’s medieval predecessor.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 67
Census, ID 151989
Census, ID 151989
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Codex Coner has been made possible through the generosity of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin.
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